return of the archaic floppy drive

Okay, this is going to sound like a really, really stupid question... but I'm going to ask it anyway. I'd like to put a floppy drive in one of my 3.5" bay, I think for nostalgic reasons more than anything else, though I do have a number of those disk lying around. But my motherboard won't support such ancient technology. Is anyone aware of an adapter for a floppy drive, or an internal USB floppy drive? I've scoured the internet, but have found no such animal.

If you can't find any drives with an internal USB header you might be able to find a PCI card with a FDD controller on it and use the classic ribbon cable.

Personally that's a lot more cost prohibitive than just buying a $10 external one.

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Aye that's what I did with the Beast. I already had a header card from an old Compaq I used to own so I used that. I use the floppy drive to write word documents for high school while everyone else uses their fancy flash drives. I even have a USB floppy drive I keep in my binder for the school Chromebooks

Aye that's what I did with the Beast. I already had a header card from an old Compaq I used to own so I used that. I use the floppy drive to write word documents for high school while everyone else uses their fancy flash drives. I even have a USB floppy drive I keep in my binder for the school Chromebooks

I appreciate all of your responses, and your sense of humor. I'm gonna have to pull a floppy drive out of one of my old computers and put it in my new build. In the meantime, I do have 64 MB flash drive I can use. But I just hate getting too modernized.

voyagerfan99Master of Turning Things Off and Back On AgainStaff Member

I do have 64 MB flash drive I can use. But I just hate getting too modernized.

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Floppy disks corrupt far easier than a flashdrive does.

One time when I worked in computer repair, a woman brought in three boxes of unopened Viking 5.25" floppy disks and asked if we had any use for them or wanted to buy them. She tried calling the number on the box but learned Viking had gone out of business many years ago. She wasn't too thrilled when I laughed in her face.